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AAHHE Latinx Student Success Institute (LSSI)Future Dates to be Determined! Past AAHHE Latinx Student Success Institutes (LSSI)2025 AAHHE/ETS Latinx Student Success InstituteThe Latino Student Success Institute Sponsored and Presented by the Diana Natalicio Institute for Hispanic Student Success at the University of Texas at El Paso
and Co-Sponsored by ETS
Presenters: Dr. Anne-Marie Núñez, Executive Director, Diana Natalicio Institute for Hispanic Student Success March 7, 2025, 8am-11am MST Description 2024 AAHHE/ETS Latinx Student Success InstituteInterrogating the new realities: Creating a culture of evidence to respond to the Anti-Diversity, Equity & Inclusions and Anti-Affirmative action landscape
Institute Summary In 2023, higher education institutions, leaders, scholars, and students faced unprecedented challenges to the ideals of diversity, equity, inclusion, and affirmative action laws. As a result, the educational experiences of Latina/o students have created an arduous pathway to enrollment, persistence, and completing a postsecondary credential and/or degree. There is a critical need to highlight and understand how these recent state and federal laws shape how institutions meet the needs of these students. The theme of the AAHHE 2024 conference, Interrogating Ways of Knowing & Production as Forms of Healing: The Intersection(s) between the Land, Community, and Education, provides the lens on how higher education leaders and scholars must use their research acumen, advocacy, and collective strength to interrogate and challenge these new realities to create the safe and brave spaces build and support our comunidad. Despite the political rancor, the AAHHE philosophical foundation compels educational leaders, faculty members, and professional staff to develop purposeful and intentional policies, programs, and practices to assist and support our diverse Latina/e/o/x student, scholar, and practitioner comunidad in community colleges and four-year institutions. Purpose The purpose of the AAHHE 2024 Latina/e/o/x Student Success Institute is to create a safe space for higher education leaders to learn about current research from national and prominent scholars, to ask important questions, and to develop professional connections. We will have a specific focus on the college enrollment and persistence of Latina/e/o/x students (e.g., defined by various identity-based dimensions). This highly interactive institute will inspire, educate, and empower leaders, faculty members, and professional staff to return to their campus with new questions, ideas, and action steps to move this agenda forward. 2024 Latina/e/o/x Student Success Institute Agenda
2023 AAHHE/ETS Latinx Student Success InstituteUnspoken Realities of Undocumented Latina/o/x students with and without DACA status: Creating Awareness and Action through Policies, Programs, Practices, and Politics
Institute Summary In 2022, we celebrated the decade anniversary (June 15, 2012) of the unprecedented DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) executive order which provided children of unauthorized foreign immigrant parents to have certain protections. Scholars of DACA “Dreamer” students have found that these students achieved academic success under these protections. In addition, other scholars have examined a similar group of students who are described as Undocumented students who are not protected by the DACA executive order. There are unspoken realities of Latina/o/x undocumented students with and without DACA status must endure on their pathway to a postsecondary credential and/or degree. There is a greater need to highlight and understand how these students face unique and ongoing challenges that are often not known or addressed by administrators, faculty members, or professional staff. The theme of the AAHHE 2023 conference, La Lucha sigue (the struggle continues), provides the lens on how higher education leaders and scholars must use compassion, grace, and comfort to understand the unique academic, social, well-being of this growing sector of Latina/o/x students. Despite the political rancor and the uncertainty of immigrant policies, the AAHHE philosophical foundation compels educational leaders, faculty members, and professional staff to develop purposeful and intentional policies, programs, and practices to assist and support undocumented Latina/o/x students with and without DACA status in community colleges and four-year institutions. Purpose The purpose of the AAHHE 2023 Latina/o/x Student Success Institute is to create a safe space for higher education leaders to learn about current research from national and prominent scholars, to ask important questions, and to develop professional connections. We will have a specific focus on college enrollment and persistence of Latina/o/x undocumented students with and without DACA status. This highly interactive institute will inspire, educate, and empower leaders, faculty members, and professional staff to return to their campus with new questions, ideas, and action steps to move this agenda forward. 2023 Latina/o/x Student Success Institute Agenda
2022 AAHHE/ETS Latinx Student Success InstituteEmbracing Healing: Improving enrollment and persistence rates for Latinx/a/o students
The pandemic continues to linger in the lives of Latinx/x/o students. There are untold stories about the complex lives of Latinx/a/o students and how they participate in college. Once again, national reports highlight that our students face unique and ongoing challenges that are often not known or addressed by colleges. The theme of the AAHHE 2022 conference, Embrace Healing, provides the lens on how higher education leaders must use compassion, grace, and comfort to engage with Latinx/a/o students and their families. Despite having many factors that create a complex portrait for a diversity of Latinx/a/o students, higher education leaders, professional staff, and faculty members need to listen and help to heal these students through purposeful and intentional policies, programs, and practices. The purpose of the AAHHE 2022 Latina/a/o Student Success Institute is to create a safe space for higher education leaders to learn about current research, to ask important questions, and to develop professional connections. We will have a specific focus on college enrollment and persistence for the diversity of Latinx/a/o student learners (e.g., non-traditional age, low-income, single). Presenters:
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